Barracuda Spam Firewall 100 Offers Powerful Spam and Virus Protection for £848… Barracuda Networks, Inc., a leading provider of network security appliances, today launched the Barracuda Spam Firewall 100 for small businesses and organisations with 50 users or less. Priced at £848 (includes six months of Energize Updates service) with no per user licensing fees, the Barracuda Spam Firewall 100 offers the same easy to use, powerful spam and… read more »
June 12th, 2007 in
General News,
Spam Source:
newsnow.co.uk
Singapore - Companies in Singapore sending e-mail advertisements will have to tag their messages with an “ADV” label and allow e-mail users to unsubscribe from the messages starting next Friday. Under the new law aimed at curtailing unsolicited commercial electronic messages, those who continue to send spam to people who have opted out will face penalties of 25 Singapore dollars (16 US dollars) for each message, up to a total of 1 mil… read more »
Robert Alan Soloway, described as one of the world’s most prolific spammers, was arrested Wednesday. Despite the arrest, millions of junk e-mails continued to surface the mailboxes. He was once on a top 10 list of spammers kept by The Spamhaus Project, an international anti-spam organization. Others have since topped him, mostly based in Russia and other countries out of reach of U.S. or European law.
Anick Jesdanun, AP Internet Writer repo… read more »
June 7th, 2007 in
General News,
Spam Source:
newsnow.co.uk
IronPort Systems has announced the introduction of the IronPort X1050 e-mail security appliance. The IronPort X1050 offers a significant increase in performance, scanning more than 2.5 million messages per hour. This is 400% more processing power than IronPort’s previous generation of carrier-class appliances, the IronPort X1000, and as much as 10 times the performance of competing systems.
The performance increase, enabled by IronPort’s late… read more »
An email apparently sent by Marks & Spencer, offering £100-worth of vouchers if you forward it on to friends, is a hoax. The email asks you to send it on to at least eight other people, while copying in a legitimate email address from Persimmon Homes, which it also says is involved with the offer. Both Marks & Spencer and Persimmon Homes have denied any involvement but there is a worry that people who benefited from a Threshers voucher… read more »
June 7th, 2007 in
Spam Source:
newsnow.co.uk
The latest malware spam run is using gripping news headlines as email subjects to hook in unsuspecting victims. And while this is not something new, the use of actual news headlines can make it more difficult to distinguish it as malicious.
The SPAM From: line may show a news organization. However the actual sources of the email is all over the map (numerous broadband IPs on several continents). Hopefully most people have been trained to not trus… read more »
June 6th, 2007 in
Spam Source:
f-secure.com
Spammers have launched a new attack that could jeopardise the security of SMEs, new figures show.
The latest report by MessageLabs reveals an increase in spam spikes, which occur when individual domains are targeted in a particularly aggressive spam attack. Analysts detected a spike last month, in which more than 10,000 spam messages were attempted and accounted for more than 75 per cent of the total emails received by the domain during the entir… read more »
June 5th, 2007 in
Spam Source:
scmagazine.com
housands of Tiscali customers are demanding answers after hackers broke through the internet service provider’s security to send spam causing the email service to collapse.
The spammers evaded the Italian firm’s security system to send junk mail, which led to many other ISPs blocking all emails from its users.
Angry Tiscali customers have left messages on the telecommunications company’s website demanding to know why the company failed … read more »
May 31st, 2007 in
Spam Source:
scmagazine.com
